We have a very special episode today! Deanna Berkemeier, from Genesee Country Village & Museum in Mumford, NY, walks us through the process of making cheese from scratch. Deanna is a master at the art of Cheesemaking. We hope you enjoy this! If you're ever in the Rochester, NY, area, be sure to put Genesee Country Village & Museum on your itinerary! You won't regret it! Genesee Country Village and Museum - www.gcv.org/Help support the channel with Patreon ▶ www.patreon.com/townsend ▶▶Check Out Our Brand New Website! ▶ www.townsends.us/ ▶▶Twitter ▶ @Jas_TownsendFacebook ▶ facebook.com/jas.townsendInstagram ▶ townsends_official

NOPE! Humans figured all of this out countless millennia ago! They were way smarter and more resourceful than the spoiled clueless denizens of modern suburbia! They used every part of animals! Food and fiber baby. . . .Food and fiber! When the ANCIENTS. . . observed the "quick cheese" present in a sucking calves stomach contents(thousands of years ago) they used their noggins and observational skills and figured it out! Techniques of course developed over time with variations in enzymes and bacteria along with aging and again observing changes according to the "cheese aging and processing environment" Most modern versions of Mead,(beer),wine, bread and cheese were (if not invented by them) were perfected by Christian monks in monasteries all over the world (farmers and gardeners) . . . Betcha thought they just copied manuscripts and scratched themselves huh?

Been to the Genesee County Museum, Its amazing there, they also have food there thats made as it would be made around the 18th century. They also offer some samples sometimes depending where you go. I had what was called "Red Velvet Hash" from there once, it was amazing.

Thanks Deanna, I learned a lot! I had no idea that you could use buttermilk to simulate the same process with pasteurised milk, and it's good to know UHT won't work. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! 😊

What do you do with the whey? I doubt that in a period where they (re)used everything they didn't find a purpose for it. Especially since you get so much out of a single cheese. Can you use it to make something else? I read somewhere it was spread on the fields as fertiliser.

I am buying a miniature jersey next spring (google it, like a miniature pony, but a cow - very managable for small hobby farms/homesteaders. I want to make cheese! In a day an age when the job market is so competitive, small town living and making much of your own food becomes a more attractive proposition!

I love your videos, they are amazing and a real eye opener towards old technologies and ways. Thank you for keeping them alive. They are in a certain way part of our heritage that we must not loose. Thank you

Mr Townsend. I am so glad that you know these things and are teaching others. I so fear that as a people, we are loosing our ability to sustain ourselves. We are being re-socialized to be helpless and dependent. I love your teaching. Please keep them coming.

WOW! Genesee Country Village! We LOVED to visit here when we lived in Central New York State. The housing conserved here is PHENOMENAL. Your visit showcases a major part of the cultural heritage of our family, early settlers of Fairport, New York.